Christmas 2010

Addison's 1st Christmas went really good. For some reason I don't remember a lot of the boys "1st's" so I'm hoping these blogs help me remember Addison's. I had my laptop stolen with all the boys baby pictures so I don't even have pictures to remember all of it either. I know I'm not old yet so I'm hoping that doesn't mean I'll have Alzhimer's really bad. LOL. Anyways. We had a BUSY weekend this year. Jonathan had the boys Christmas Eve morning and during the day which made it really easy so they wouldn't feel left out while Addison did her thing with her other brother and sister. We went to Josh's mom's Christmas Eve and had Christmas with them. Addison loved opening presents and watching the kids. Then went and wrapped a TON of Christmas presents.

Christmas morning at mom's there were presents EVERYWHERE. Santa brought presents for all 5 kids (including mine & Joey's stockings of course lol.) Then there were tons of presents again from us, mom, dad, yadda yadda. Addison didn't know which toys to play with first and everyone took their turn helping her open her presents. The boys got all kinds of toys and it was so cute because they were just as excited making sure that Addison saw all her toys. And just because I thought this was funny, Eli told me that his daddy got him a bebe gun. My response..."yay, keep it at Daddy's." LOL! I'm very thankful that Jonathan let me have the boys Christmas Eve night/Christmas morning 2 years in a row so they could spend Christmas with Addison this year. We've been thru a lot with her and everything else and I'm very very thankful that we've gotten this far and she's doing as good as she has for everything she's been thru. That's enough before I cry. :)

Then we went to Aunt Gail's for Christmas part 356. LOL. Of course that all involves food, opening presents, dirty Santa, peanuts...it's crazy.

Then we had Christmas with Josh's mom and Granny and the kids so they could open their presents from Santa that were at Josh's house. Again, presents EVERYWHERE. I think Addison enjoyed watching all the comotion from Christmas Day more than she did opening presents. She stayed awake the entire day (besides sleeping the 5 minutes here and there we were in the car going back and forth.) She wasn't fussy or cranky or anything. Perfect for her 1st Christmas!

Of course like every other holiday there's always the things that you wish would have gone this way or done something different but everything actually went pretty smooth this year considering all the changes that happened this past year and we had a really good Christmas. Love you all and Merry Christmas! I'll add pictures to this as soon as I can.

Body After Baby continued

I was supposed to do a Body After Baby blog last week but never got around to it. I have slacked on the exercising lately. Well, stopped completely actually. But I still haven't gone back to the Mountain Dews and still watching what I eat so I don't fall back too far. But the good news is that I haven't gained anything. I'm still at 2 pounds lost so I'm ok with that. I haven't put any effort in it lately so that's my fault. Things have been so crazy with Christmas shopping and staying over late at work so there's been no time. This week is going to be crazy too so I'm going to attempt to slide in a couple trips to Court South then definately start back right after Christmas. I'm just happy I haven't gained any weight. Yay! Goal is to lose 2 pounds either this week or next week and start working out again for sure.

True Blend Photography - Addison 7 months

We took Addison to get her 6 month pictures (of course it ended up being 7 months) at The Cove in Farragut. She did really good and the lady that did our pictures said that she was very photogenic. She's a ham is exactly what it is. I loved the lady that did them. Her name is Nicole and she's with True Blend Photography. For $40 she gave us a 1 hour photo shoot with as many pictures as we could get in an hour and then gave us a copy right free cd. I love them! I'm taking the boys and Addison to get Christmas pictures or at least winter pictures as soon as possible. Needless to say there's over 250 pictures but I'm only going to post a few. I'll email some more if you want to see but here's a few. :) Enjoy!

Body After Baby update

So I weighed yesterday and I lost another 2 pounds! Total of 4 pounds! Of course I was sick all weekend with a stomach virus so that helped the weight loss but I sure didn't do any exercising the past couple days because of it. I'm going to go to the gym today and start back since I'm back to "normal".

I'm still on my Diet Mountain Dew kick and actually not complaining about it. LOL. Of course I do drink a coke every once in a while if we go out to eat somewhere where I can't stand the tea. I'm ok with drinking bottled water but I'm not a fan of drinking tap water from restaurants since I had issues drinking water when I was little. (Stomach problems.)But, I was up to drink 2 20-oz Mountain Dew's a day so this is a HUGE step for me.

Anyways, can't wait to get back to working out. I'm actually enjoying it. The Court South I go to has a theatre in the cardio room and it's amazing! Of course I do have to admit, when they have a crappy movie playing, it's harder to exercise. :) But I'm having fun with this!

Body After Baby

So I saw a Body After Baby post on someone else's blog and signed up to do it myself. I'm not going to be posting my before weight of course but I will be posting how much I lose and what kind of exercising I'm doing. I only gained 4 pounds being pregnant with Addison and then lost about 20 after I had her. I wanted to keep it at that but of course I didn't so I'm back to where I started. At least I didn't have to buy new clothes. LOL

I did a 5K walk with Heather one weekend and actually enjoyed it and didn't feel like I was killing myself afterwards either so hopefully I'm going to start doing more of those. I can make myself get up and do it...just not sure about making myself do it in freezing weather. LOL The Body After Baby challenge is only for 2 months but I plan on doing this for much longer. So far I've lost 2 pounds just from cutting out Mountain Dew's. Of course I knew I couldn't cut cold turkey so I went to Diet Mountain Dew's. It's worked so far. So wish me luck!